Just a friendly reminder that you are a minuscule, insignificant fleck of dust. We woke up in Franz Joseph and parted ways with Maciek to head toward the Franz Joesph glacier. It had been raining all morning so we weren’t too keen, but decided to drive up there and check it out at the least. …
Travel Notes: Getting Out of Queenstown
As locals will tell you, Queenstown is a hard place to leave. It’s notorious for people coming there for a week or a month and staying for a year or longer. I knew I had to get out of there, so I planned to hitchhike to the Franz Joseph glacier, roughly a five or six …
Travel Notes: Queenstown
Queenstown is awesome, as described in a previous post. I think I’d like to have a vacation home there some day. After a long bus ride from Christchurch I arrived and checked into Base, a chain hostel for a young, raucous, action-sports oriented type of crowd. Eight-bunk dorms in tight quarters with minimal personal space. …
Travel Notes: Christchurch
Since I already posted about Christchurch I’ll keep these travel notes brief. It’s true that due to the earthquakes Christchurch is a lot quieter and with fewer people, many having relocated to other parts of New Zealand and to Australia. I stayed at the YMCA hostel for my first night, but having failed to reserve …
Travel Notes: Auckland
Auckland is the biggest city in New Zealand, home to 1.5 million people or roughly 1/3 of the population. I spent five days in Auckland to kick off the world adventure. As detailed in previous blog post, while in Auckland I stayed with Khalid Shafar at his flat in the CBD. This was a great …
Travel Notes: Introduction
Today is actually February 25. I’ve been in Australia for four nights now and I’m leaving in the morning for a two-day camping and 4X4 excursion to Fraser Island. Internet connection and time has been limited here spending hours on a bus, but wanted to get this post out before I left! I’m writing …
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